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Hello.

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Um, hello.

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News, news to kick us off that is relevant to me and not really to you is that the Texas

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Book Festival, which is coming up in November.

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What?

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I said jealous.

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Oh.

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What did you think I said?

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I couldn't tell.

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It just sounded like you were hissing at me, like you were trying to speak Parseltongue

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or something.

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I apologize for the Harry Potter reference.

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I apologize that I know the Parseltongue in the movie.

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As usual.

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Anyway, they announced their author lineup and it's not romance.

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It's all books.

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So last year there were only a couple of people I was really interested in seeing, but this

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year, Ali Hazelwood, Kennedy Ryan, Sajni Patel, Maisie Eddings.

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I feel like I might have missed people, but it's a very large list.

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So I was just pulling the ones that I recognize.

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Alexandra Bracken, which she wrote lore and she's written some other YA stuff.

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That's the only one I've read.

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And when I was thick in my YA fantasy, I really liked that book.

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So that's Stacey Abrams.

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I mean, I've never.

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That's cool.

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I've read her.

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I read one of her books from Berkeley that was like re-released.

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Interesting.

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And I didn't realize it was re-released.

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It was an interesting time.

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I know she's her most recent one has a really cool cover.

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I'm behind it.

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So I'm jealous.

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It'll be fun.

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It was a it's free.

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It's just like a big, big close off downtown Austin in front of the Capitol and have like

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tents and signings and panels and things.

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So I enjoyed when I went last year.

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Again, not romance heavy, but they had a panel.

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Yeah.

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And also, I don't know if you have this issue, but my steamy lit stuff goes to my junk mail.

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I don't know why.

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So if anyone hasn't like if you went to steamy lit and you didn't get any email, check your

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junk mail because it was like information about early bird tickets for people who already

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went.

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So I was like looking at my junk.

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I was like, oh, that's important.

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So and I like have added it to my VIP VIP contacts.

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But that's weird.

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Alas, I know.

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So just in case anyone's in that boat and it's only tickets for 2024, which is nice.

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I thought they were going to make us buy like 2024 and 2025 at the same time.

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I was like, I'd prefer not to.

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So we're safe there.

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We are safe.

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I think that was my only news.

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Welcome to romance your TBR.

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It's us.

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It's us.

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This is going to be a vibes only episode.

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Boy, we came up with at the end of recording our last episode, once again, purely out of

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the vibe.

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And we we took 20 minutes of that episode to just like talk about it.

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And then I had to like cut it out.

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Yeah.

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And so like, you don't know this, but we know this.

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So yeah, yeah.

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This recorded somewhere.

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I feel I should give context.

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Yeah, you're going to make to.

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Yeah.

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You need to start us off.

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This is related to Formula One, which if you have listened, I'm sure I have talked about

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it before.

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However, I promise this episode isn't about Formula One.

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It was just the starting point.

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There is a like the most successful female race car driver named Danica Patrick.

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Danica Patrick is not the most supportive of women in motorsports, which is hilarious.

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Because girl, what are you doing?

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Like what?

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She is not.

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Sometimes I have seen points she has made that are valid.

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However, sometimes it's like, why do you hate other women?

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You know, it'd be like that sometimes.

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Anyway, she in some interview, which like there isn't a video of it because it was like

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a Sky Sports there, maybe there is a video, but only if you are subscribed to the Sky

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Sports, whatever the point is, she did an interview.

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And it went not super viral, but it was news in the motorsport community because she said

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they asked about it was a young girl, by the way, was doing the interview.

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It was like a child interview, and she asked when we would see a woman racing in Formula

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One.

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And so she started out reasonably.

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As I've always said, my whole career, it takes 100 guys to come through to find a good one.

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And then it takes 100 girls.

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That takes a long time to find a good one, right?

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The odds are not in favor of there always being one or being many of them.

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Fair enough.

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There's just not as many women.

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So of course, it's going to take longer.

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Then she continues.

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And at the end of the day, I think that the nature of the sport is masculine.

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It's aggressive.

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You have to, you know, handle the car, not only just the car, because that's a skill,

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but the mindset that it takes to be really good is something that's not normal in a feminine

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mind in a female mind.

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You have to be like, for me, I know if somebody tries to bow up or make it difficult on me,

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I would go into like an aggressive kill mode, right?

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You just want to go after them.

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And that's just not a natural feminine thought.

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I say that because I've asked my friends about it.

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And they're like, yeah, that's not how I think.

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And so there's a I can't remember which Formula One podcast it is.

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It's the two girls.

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Yeah, I was like looking at our transcript from last time.

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Okay.

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Two girls, one formula has merch that looks like the Barbie movie.

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So cute.

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And it has aggressive kill mode on it.

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And I was like, that's hilarious.

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I love aggressive kill mode.

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I don't even remember how we got from one to the other.

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We started talking about books where character usually heroines, I feel like, because that's

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a feminine coded thing in the context of the quote.

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But it doesn't have to be a woman go into there.

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There are a few men.

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Yeah, there are a few men.

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I think it's funnier when it's a woman.

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But sometimes, yeah, maybe going to be maybe going into aggressive kill mode.

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And that's the idea of this episode was born, which is literally just us spitballing books

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in which characters go into aggressive kill mode.

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And we love it.

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It was a great episode at the end of that episode.

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So it was a great episode.

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Dare I say so myself?

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Yeah, at that point, it was like two plus hours.

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I was like, bye bye.

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I just think it's so bold to say that women can't go into aggressive kill mode.

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Like we're here to prove that wrong.

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Have you never seen women like ripping each other's hair out and stuff?

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What was?

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I mean, not me, but.

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Oh my God.

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Have you seen that video?

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I think it was at the Morgan Wallen concert.

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It was like going viral on Twitter.

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They were at the porta potties.

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Oh, yeah.

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I never watched the video, but I saw it.

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Oh my God.

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They were at the porta potties.

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And I think this one girl, probably our age, goes into the bathroom and her mom is guarding

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the door or something.

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I think she cut in line.

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I don't know.

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And then one lady was like getting aggressive towards the mother and then they like dragged

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her into the open porta potti.

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And so she was like getting her ass like beat in the porta potti.

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The daughter comes out of her porta potti.

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She is in this like blue romper and cowboy boots and she goes into aggressive kill mode.

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Like that is the pinnacle to me of like real life aggressive kill mode.

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Like she the way she pulled the hair, like she ripped two girls out of that porta potti

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like she was a fucking Hulk.

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Like it was crazy.

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And like the one girl was trying to help the mom.

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The daughter didn't know.

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She just like threw on the ground.

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It was it's a wild video.

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And you know, I just have to.

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I don't know.

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The porta potti of it all.

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It really it did a number on me.

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It was like 3 a.m. and I was watching and I was like, oh, I was not prepared.

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So I do recommend watching the video to really get in the spirit.

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Well, yeah, of this episode.

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Yeah, I think that's correct.

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Yeah, like that's the vibe we're going for.

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Yeah, like there are like a few books where even if it's not like killing or I mean, there's

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not a lot of killing, killing, unfortunately, but where they just like can feel their emotions,

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like unreserved, just feeling them.

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I think that's a beautiful thing.

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And I've read about a few times and I love it every time.

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Yes.

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Roll on the ground, kick and scream.

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Do it for me.

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Do it for me.

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Oh, I love being a woman.

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I love being a woman.

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The inherent feminine rage, the Olivia Rodrigo of it all.

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Oh, yes.

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Are we limiting historical romance or we go in all romance here?

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What's the honestly?

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Here's the issue.

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I can't go an episode without talking about Kiss of a Demon King.

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So like I'm pro.

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Like I only have a few like few in my mind that would be contemporary or elsewhere, but

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I think I'm fine with that.

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Fine with what?

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Doing all of them.

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I think I have something specific.

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No, I don't.

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Well, Kiss of a Demon King.

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I mean, I feel like, listen, I've only read again up the first few Cressley Cole in that

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series.

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But yeah, I feel like any Cressley Cole is going to have an aggressive kill mode in it.

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She has her own brand of aggressive kill mode.

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But yeah, it's kind of like Elizabeth Hoyt.

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I feel like all of those books are just aggressive kill mode, like in and of themselves.

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Elizabeth Hoyt herself is she.

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Yes.

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Kill mode.

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Exactly.

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Like maybe the books, maybe not so much, but her as a writer writing them, she was an aggressive

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kill mode.

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And that's the definition.

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Like there's your definition.

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Kiss of a Demon King and Elizabeth Hoyt, the author, and also that girl in a romper fighting

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in the porta potty.

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Yes, they're all in the bar.

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That's the mood board for aggressive kill mode.

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Yeah, they're just so prominent in my mind.

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So you know.

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That's so fair.

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I literally am just going to open.

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I did no prep for this.

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We're going to open Goodreads and we're going to start scrolling on the red shelf.

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Yeah.

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See what speaks to me, because first and foremost, I read Any Duke in a Storm by Amelie Howard.

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Boy, was that woman in kill mode, aggressive kill mode for like most of the book, if I'm

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being honest.

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But there's a part where she like they're making out.

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Oh, this book comes out, by the way, in like January.

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So it's going to be a minute.

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However, she is undercover as a spy or rather a spy undercover as Bonnie Bess, the feared

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pirate captain.

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Oh, my God.

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It's pirate.

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Yeah.

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Well, she claims that she's a smuggler, not a pirate.

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Well, don't they all?

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Yeah, it's giving me my lands off.

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It's giving privateer.

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And he's also like kind of a pirate is a whole thing.

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Anyway, they're making out in an alleyway and they get ganged up on by like eight dudes

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or something.

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And so they start fighting these guys off, but also like turning each other on at the

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same time as they are physically fighting these guys.

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She like drags a knife across him and he's like, that's hot.

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And I was like, OK, sure.

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Now is not really the time you're getting ganged up on by a bunch of dudes who are trying

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to kill you.

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But I respect it.

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She's just in aggressive kill mode for so much of that.

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She's blowing things up.

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She stabbed a guy in the balls.

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Yes.

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I'm so excited.

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That's it.

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That's my first contribution to this.

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Beautiful.

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Beautiful.

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Well, I just read one, too.

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It was One Dangerous Night by Kathy Maxwell.

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And this is one of the ones where she just like felt her emotions for the first time,

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like just like let him loose.

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Like do you know that Tangled meme where she's like laying in the in the field and he's just

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sitting there?

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That was the dynamic.

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Like she was just going through it like they were on a road trip like she was trying to

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escape to Ireland because her sister married the guy that she thought she was in love with.

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She was just having a bunch of things.

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And I'm like, you are so relatable.

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Like I too.

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Yeah, because like I then I like in the middle of that one, I went back to read book one

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because I had on the audiobook and I was like making bracelets, so I need something to listen

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to.

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And I wasn't a fan of her really in that book, but because I knew her in the book, too, I

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was more of a fan than I would have been.

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And so like you could see her get to the point where she got in book two.

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And then I was just rooting for her so hard to just like let it all out.

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The way she just like there was a scene, she got like stuck in like tree branches and he

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like offered to help her.

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And she's like, no, I'm going to do it myself.

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I'm Miss Independent.

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She just like flails bodily for like five minutes, just like kicking and screaming.

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He's just watching it.

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And she's just like absolutely like little nutty squirrel energy.

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Like she's just kicking and screaming and finally gets out and she just like dust herself

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off and just keeps on walking.

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Like the emotions that she was able to feel in that book, I felt very seen because like

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I just feel like I have reacted that way, too.

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Even if the sister and the her new husbands were a great match, I'd still feel like, wow,

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I would have been better.

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So it was great.

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It was a really good book.

298
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Also, they were just like aggressively kill mode towards each other.

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It was kind of there was a lot of banter and they were not getting along.

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I mean, they were in bad circumstances.

301
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They were the only two survivors of a carriage wreck.

302
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They didn't know each other, both disguising their identities.

303
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It was a whole thing.

304
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So that one comes out.

305
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I hope it's not in 2024, but I have a feeling it is.

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Oops, let's see.

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I mean, the one I recommend, I know, I know.

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I'm just like hoping for their sake.

309
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It's not.

310
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Sure.

311
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Let's see.

312
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Oh, March 2024.

313
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Oh, sorry.

314
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Just have it on your have it on your tab.

315
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That's fine.

316
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My next one is an old school.

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It's out.

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It's been out.

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It's out.

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It's gentle rogue.

321
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So I'm not going to talk too much about it.

322
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Did you read it?

323
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Oh, yeah, because we have an episode coming up in which I will discuss it at length.

324
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First of all, banger.

325
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Second of all, he is in aggressive kill mode for like the second half of that book, but

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not in the way that you expect.

327
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Like it's at her half the time, but not in a scary way.

328
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Like he liked that.

329
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There's a joke where he like, yes, he's mad at her and he's like, well, I'm going to go

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beat my wife and everybody is like, what?

331
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You can't do that.

332
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And he's like, I cannot believe y'all believe I would never do that.

333
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Like that was a bit I'm not going to go beat my wife.

334
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Why would I do?

335
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He's just so incapable of expressing any emotions.

336
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And also, he like aggressively fights all five of her brothers and gets forced to marry

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her, but kind of on purpose.

338
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Nice.

339
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And he hates her brothers so much.

340
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And they kidnap her away from him after they're already married.

341
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And he shows up at the end of this book and there's like a line of sailors, like preventing

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him from getting to her.

343
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And she meanwhile is like, my brother, I would like to go back to my husband, please.

344
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This is not going well.

345
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Can I just, and he's like, no.

346
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And also you can't get to him because there's a line of sailors on this boat preventing

347
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him from getting to us.

348
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And she has a conversation with her brother and he's like fighting them in the background.

349
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But there's like a whole bunch of sailors.

350
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Like he's busy and then all of a sudden she turns around and he's there.

351
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And she's like, how much of that conversation did you hear?

352
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And how did you get here?

353
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And there's like moaning men.

354
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Like he just fought all of them.

355
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This book is giving cinema.

356
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It's giving cinematography.

357
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I am drunk Taylor.

358
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I'm so excited.

359
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Cool.

360
00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,800
I don't know why this book was so funny.

361
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That's a good, cause it doesn't, there's no audio book, right?

362
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There is, but I loved every part of the audio book, except the narrator does an atrocious

363
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voice for him.

364
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It's very like, Oh no.

365
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You would hate it so much.

366
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I thought it was like, once I kind of got past that, I thought she did a really, and

367
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like actually she was very funny on the heroine and on the brothers.

368
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So that was enjoyable, but I do think you would find her hero voice atrocious.

369
00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,400
Yeah.

370
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Maybe I'll just nestle in, read my.

371
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Well it made me chuckle.

372
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She also was in aggressive kill mode at him for a lot of the book, but also every time

373
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he made out with her, she was like, you know what?

374
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Take me.

375
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And I respect that.

376
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I'm excited.

377
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I like, that's obviously like a very classic cover, but I haven't heard people talk about

378
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it much.

379
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,400
No, it's not what I was.

380
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,400
It's interesting.

381
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Cause I was expecting a bodice rubber.

382
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,400
It's not.

383
00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,400
Oh cool.

384
00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,920
Well, it's all pretty consensual.

385
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Color me excited.

386
00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,500
And also not a lot of violence.

387
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It's mostly like family nonsense and her pretending to be a cabin boy and him pretending not to

388
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know who she is.

389
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And then him fighting her brothers, all five of them.

390
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And then them forcing him to marry her and then locking him in a cellar to await trial

391
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for being a retired pirate.

392
00:18:46,180 --> 00:18:47,680
Why is it so funny?

393
00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,440
This book was so funny.

394
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Here is literally, I wrote it down because the funniest thing I have ever heard is her

395
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calling him a pirate and him responding, that's a gentleman pirate love and retired, not that

396
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it matters.

397
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,440
It's giving India Holton.

398
00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,440
That really is.

399
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,680
It was so funny.

400
00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,040
Why was it so funny?

401
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,040
I can't, I can't.

402
00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,040
Wow.

403
00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,040
That's a great advertisement.

404
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:21,320
With her going to find her fiance who disappeared six years ago and finding him.

405
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,320
So nice.

406
00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:23,320
There you go.

407
00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:32,240
Well, there's our ad for romance or TBR next week, the 19th Tuesday.

408
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And you should know listeners what very special holiday we will be celebrating.

409
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I don't think I cut that out.

410
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:42,240
I think I left that in.

411
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,240
I think I left that in the-

412
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,880
Because if you did, Google's free, but also they should know.

413
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:50,680
I think I left it in because I was like, we need to know.

414
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,600
You should know what a special day it is.

415
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,320
And it's not her birthday.

416
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,320
If that's not my birthday.

417
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,000
No, this is far more important.

418
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000
You couldn't Google that.

419
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000
Maybe.

420
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,840
I'll start a Wikipedia page on you.

421
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,440
Guys, where is our romance or TBR Wikipedia page?

422
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,440
That's so true.

423
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,160
I want people to write wildly inaccurate things.

424
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,240
I'm worth like 1.5 million.

425
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,480
Build me up.

426
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,560
You said something that triggered another book in me.

427
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,960
You said locked.

428
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,520
And when I heard the word locked, I was like, who locks someone in something?

429
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,640
And that brought me to Seduce Me and Sunrise.

430
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:44,440
And she just locks that man in a fucking closet cabinet thing and is like, what if I set it

431
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,440
on fire?

432
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:46,440
And then does.

433
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:52,560
It's basically like, you will stay in there until you tell me what I need to know.

434
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:57,240
And then she also just didn't want to let him out.

435
00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,240
Again, that book, the more I think about it, the more I love it.

436
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:09,600
Because it wasn't my favorite, but the vibes of her just shoving that weird ass doctor

437
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,160
into like a what would you even call that?

438
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:13,160
It wasn't like a wardrobe.

439
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,160
A wardrobe.

440
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,160
Yeah.

441
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,280
Into a wardrobe and just setting it on fire.

442
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,040
And he's so cocky.

443
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,080
He doesn't think she's going to do it.

444
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,080
And then she just.

445
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:28,440
When is not a character who you ever expect to know even have the capacity for aggressive

446
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,440
kill mode.

447
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,440
No.

448
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,800
Because the feminine mind is not limited by this nonsense.

449
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,000
She has two wolves inside her.

450
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,680
One is much smaller or maybe not smaller, but calmer.

451
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:47,600
But when you incite that wolf.

452
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,600
Absolutely feral.

453
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,160
I just because because he poisons.

454
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,160
What's his name?

455
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,000
Like, look, I don't even remember his name like have.

456
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,360
Was it Kev or was it Cam?

457
00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:00,720
I don't have a lot of.

458
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,120
Oh, wait, Cam was accidentally poisoned, right?

459
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:04,120
Right.

460
00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,120
Wasn't supposed to be kept.

461
00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:06,120
I think it's all coming back.

462
00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,120
Yeah, I think you're right.

463
00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,120
It's been a hot minute.

464
00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,120
I think you're right.

465
00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:10,120
Because Cam was like trying to have sex, I think.

466
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,120
And he just like fell down or something.

467
00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:12,120
I don't know.

468
00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,120
Spoilers for.

469
00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120
He didn't finish, guys.

470
00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:15,120
That's the spoiler.

471
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,120
You'll get through.

472
00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120
OK.

473
00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,120
Yeah, I just.

474
00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:19,120
I don't know.

475
00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,120
I don't know.

476
00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:21,120
I don't know.

477
00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:22,120
I don't know.

478
00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:23,120
I don't know.

479
00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,120
I don't know.

480
00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:25,120
I don't know.

481
00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,120
I don't know.

482
00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:27,120
I don't know.

483
00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,120
I don't know.

484
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,520
Yeah, I just.

485
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:38,720
What a what a banger of an aggressive kill mode, if I do say so myself.

486
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:39,720
Just shoves him.

487
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,520
Like, it's just my favorite thing is.

488
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,880
Like just unhinged.

489
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,520
Like you're not actually to commit this act of violence, are you?

490
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,240
And then they just do it.

491
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,760
Like in the gentleman's guide.

492
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,320
No, that's the other one.

493
00:22:54,320 --> 00:23:00,040
The nobleman's guide to something or something blue.

494
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,320
Countrymen secret lies of country, gentlemen.

495
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,320
Wow.

496
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,320
I am.

497
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,320
It took you a minute, but you got it.

498
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,720
It took me so I was like vice and no.

499
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,640
No, there are no many guides to blank and blank.

500
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,640
Yeah.

501
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,080
Guides to blank and blank.

502
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,080
So a nobleman.

503
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,080
No, my God.

504
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,080
The secret lies of country, gentlemen.

505
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,080
I can do it when.

506
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,800
It's not Joss, it's the other one.

507
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,640
I knew it at some point in my life.

508
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,960
Whatever he's like getting his ass whooped a little bit.

509
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,840
And then someone comes in and rescues him and they're like, do you want me to shoot

510
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,360
this guy who was like being really annoying?

511
00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,720
And you expect him to kill that guy for you.

512
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,720
Exactly.

513
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,240
And you expect him to say, no, you can't do that.

514
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:46,280
That's bad.

515
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,800
And he's like, yeah, he's just like, yeah, do it.

516
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,520
And it shakes out a little bit differently, but it's great.

517
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,600
And then it also happens in Prisoner of Love by Beverly Jenkins.

518
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,080
It's a novella.

519
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:06,320
She had this like horrible ex-husband who was just a dick and he comes back and the

520
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:11,200
hero is like, do you want me to just like take him outside and show him who's boss?

521
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,120
And she's like, yeah, yeah, I do.

522
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:20,160
I just love No Remorse, just agree.

523
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,240
You know, so good.

524
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,520
So that's my favorite genre.

525
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:30,240
I mean, counterpoint to that, Never Cross a Highlander.

526
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,600
Yeah.

527
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,760
Everyone's in aggressive kill mode in that book, first of all.

528
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,600
It's just nothing but aggressive kill mode at all times.

529
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,440
Second of all, we have a classic show Mercy even when he doesn't want to show Mercy, but

530
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,440
she asked him to only for that guy to cause more problems.

531
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,600
And so he has to be dealt with.

532
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,640
And he was, I don't, I mean, he was dealt, everybody, everybody was dealt with.

533
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,360
Yeah, no, everybody was dealt with.

534
00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:03,960
There were knives thrown.

535
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,080
You know, many swords.

536
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,080
So many swords.

537
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,720
That book was so good.

538
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,960
The storytelling.

539
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,640
I was just like sitting staring at my wall.

540
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,520
I was supposed to be cleaning and it wasn't happening.

541
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,520
I was just so caught up.

542
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,520
And then she got her little aggressive kill mode moment.

543
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,800
Because like my one criticism.

544
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,800
That was the knife.

545
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:24,800
Yeah.

546
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,800
She also got it.

547
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:32,280
Yeah, because my one criticism for most of the book was that she was saved a lot.

548
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,320
And then I didn't for some reason, I didn't think it was going to happen.

549
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,320
And it happened.

550
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,320
I was like, fuck yeah.

551
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:41,400
So then the criticism was not criticism anymore because she got to she got to attack and I

552
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,400
liked it.

553
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,400
So hell yeah.

554
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:46,720
Cool.

555
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,240
What else?

556
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:56,000
Well, we know an island princess starts a scandal.

557
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,280
Well, you know, that's one.

558
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,360
Yeah, we can't aggressive kill mode.

559
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,480
And hopefully listeners, you've read it by now.

560
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,120
Like what more can we do to tell you to read this?

561
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,960
But if you're not aware, there is that scene at the wedding.

562
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,320
She has her speak now.

563
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,760
She has her aggressive kill mode now moment.

564
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:23,520
And she just attacks that man jumps on his back, rips his hair out at the wedding.

565
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,680
And it's beautiful.

566
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,680
It really is beautiful.

567
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,040
She really did unlock her inner aggressive kill mode on that one.

568
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,040
Yeah.

569
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:37,520
And then she just felt other emotions like after that, she was just like a mess.

570
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,200
It was delicious.

571
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,040
Great times were had by your your hosts.

572
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,040
There's another.

573
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:53,000
There's another Scottish romance I read and I can't remember.

574
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,720
I mean, she's in aggressive kill mode for a lot of this book.

575
00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,480
It's never never love a Highlander by Maya Banks.

576
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:01,480
I think I read that.

577
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,480
I think I read that one.

578
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,480
I'm trying to remember.

579
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Is that the one where I said fuck it five stars because she had a knife or she killed

580
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:10,560
someone?

581
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,560
No, I'm not seeing your review.

582
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,840
Well, then there's another one that I have.

583
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:16,840
Is it purple?

584
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,840
No, no, that's.

585
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Let me see.

586
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:19,840
Well, disregard that.

587
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:20,840
I'll find the one that I'm thinking of.

588
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:21,840
No, it's it's red.

589
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,840
It's like dark red.

590
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:23,840
Never love a Highlander.

591
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:24,840
I did not read the first two books in the series.

592
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,840
Probably should have read the first two books.

593
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:26,840
I don't know.

594
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:27,840
I don't know.

595
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,840
I don't know.

596
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,840
I don't know.

597
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:30,840
I don't know.

598
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:31,840
I don't know.

599
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:32,840
I don't know.

600
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:33,840
I don't know.

601
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:34,840
I don't know.

602
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,840
I don't know.

603
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,840
I don't know.

604
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:37,840
It's like I read the whole series.

605
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:38,840
Probably should have.

606
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:39,840
But I didn't.

607
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,920
But it's she apparently has been she she's like the daughter of the head of a clan and

608
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,640
she was supposed to marry the hero from Book One and then didn't and then supposed to

609
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,760
marry the hero from Book Two and then he didn't.

610
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,440
So now she's finally marrying this guy to like create an alliance, but she doesn't really

611
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,340
want to.

612
00:27:57,340 --> 00:28:00,880
I think because she's attracted to him and it scares her classic.

613
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,880
But she's like a warrior herself.

614
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,000
Like she spent a lot of time training, but when she's married, he doesn't want her to

615
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,040
do that anymore, especially when she gets pregnant.

616
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,040
It's a whole thing.

617
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,560
And she's mad about it.

618
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,200
And they fight a lot, but they also bang a lot.

619
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,000
So it's a whole thing.

620
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:27,960
And I don't remember all of the details, but I think he like gets taken prisoner or something

621
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,720
and she like leads their army to rescue him.

622
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:37,000
I'm unclear on all the details, except I know she does indeed go into pregnant woman aggressive

623
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:45,080
mode, which is a whole thing.

624
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,320
I don't know if she's pregnant at that point or if it's earlier when she goes into pregnant

625
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,000
woman aggressive mode, but it's there.

626
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,280
That really is its own thing.

627
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,440
Because I can't remember any of the books, but I feel like there are a few books where

628
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,440
it's normally not like the main book.

629
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,440
It's like the book with the couple after they're featured in it.

630
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,040
And then you'll have the woman be pregnant and then she's just, there's one where the

631
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,040
guy is scared.

632
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,720
It was really good, but I don't remember.

633
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,720
I don't know.

634
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,720
Not I.

635
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,720
What was this book?

636
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,720
Was that really last year?

637
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,480
Oh no.

638
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,960
Well I'm looking at this one now.

639
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,920
A Kiss to Remember by Teresa Medeiros, neither really main character was in aggressive kill

640
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:33,320
mode, but she has younger siblings and they were aggressively trying to murder him the

641
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:39,420
entire book because she like was, he has amnesia.

642
00:29:39,420 --> 00:29:43,640
She's pretending that he's her fiance.

643
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,600
And the siblings are like scared that she's going to either like lose herself or like

644
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,560
she doesn't want to marry him or whatever.

645
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:50,840
And they're just like scared for her.

646
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:58,900
So it's coming from a place of like good, but the younger brother, he kind of like wises

647
00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:04,960
up a little bit earlier than the younger sister because she like, there were various murder

648
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,160
attempts.

649
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,880
She pushed a gargoyle off of a church, like a big stone gargoyle.

650
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,360
Like he barely got saved.

651
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,360
She poisoned him.

652
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,460
And so this guy has no clue why any of this is happening.

653
00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:17,840
His memory is gone.

654
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,040
He's kind of just there to be sexy and to like help around the house.

655
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,160
My dream.

656
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,040
And like he's just thinking about like wanting to bang her.

657
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
He's like, how did we not do this?

658
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,920
Like who was I in this past life?

659
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,360
Like that doesn't seem right.

660
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,680
And then he's also just like murder attempts are happening.

661
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,920
So it was like those kids.

662
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,280
Meddling kids?

663
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,480
Yeah, I love meddling kids.

664
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaking of, oh, side characters who go into aggressive kill mode.

665
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:58,640
I would like to submit basically every Beverly Jenkins where the main characters aren't the

666
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,000
ones who deal with the villain, which is many.

667
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,280
For example, to catch a raven.

668
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:11,140
There's just like a hint at marital, like the wife doesn't like the husband.

669
00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:15,680
And then at the very end, there's like a casual line thrown in about how she was arrested

670
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:21,320
for like axe murdering him.

671
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,840
And like, I feel a little bit bad for spoiling it, except that it's literally just like a

672
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,360
casual like, oh, yeah, also that happened.

673
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,760
It's been out for like two years at this point.

674
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,320
I forgot about that.

675
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,720
Because you don't really like her.

676
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,840
You know, they're bad and they're racist and they're so slimy.

677
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,120
That was the best nugget.

678
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,800
Yeah, it just she acts murderous.

679
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,040
There are just so many or like.

680
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:51,320
God, that was the villains are just somebody ends up in aggressive kill mode.

681
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,280
I talk all this time about which one is it?

682
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:59,560
I think it's rebel where they they take him out and tie him up and put him in a boat and

683
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,080
are like, it's sinking.

684
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,440
There's a knife in there if you can find it before the gators get you and he doesn't.

685
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,440
He doesn't the gators get him.

686
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,320
What Beverly Jenkins just tweeted the other day?

687
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,320
What did she tweet?

688
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,040
Because it was like Jenkins is also, I feel like, an aggressive kill mode.

689
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,040
Yeah.

690
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,040
What did I retweeted her?

691
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,280
I don't remember.

692
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,400
Oh, out of context, Miss Bev Yale con quote.

693
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,940
This is from her up to my titties and alligators.

694
00:32:31,940 --> 00:32:38,160
So to be in a room of Miss Bev saying that I would have also sold my titties to be to

695
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,160
be in that room.

696
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,620
I mean, yeah.

697
00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:44,380
I just love that vibe.

698
00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:48,200
So she she's forever the icon.

699
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,200
She's forever the moment.

700
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:55,400
You know, else is always an aggressive kill mode, at least now.

701
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,800
Not so much the earlier books, but the later ones.

702
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,800
Sarah McClain.

703
00:32:58,800 --> 00:32:59,800
Yeah.

704
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,360
I mean, aggressive kill mode all the way.

705
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,360
Yeah, we got to get on.

706
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,320
But Pyrrhenocle Bastards, every person in that series is in aggressive kill mode.

707
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,320
Yes, especially.

708
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,600
Well, not actually not Felicity Faircloth or Faircloth.

709
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:19,080
But Felicity was, though, she like made that man suffer because she's the first one, right?

710
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,640
Yeah, I loved her.

711
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,040
OK, so she did like.

712
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,080
I don't remember much about that book.

713
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,880
Like there was I think it was a blowjob scene.

714
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,200
I don't know.

715
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,320
She made him suffer.

716
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,600
And I was like because I wasn't like the biggest fan of him.

717
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,840
But she made that book for me.

718
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,680
I was like, you're a queen.

719
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,120
You are so hot.

720
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:47,040
Well, then everyone in that series is in aggressive kill mode.

721
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,360
But especially Daring and the Duke.

722
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,160
God, what a book.

723
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:56,400
Well, Ewan's in aggressive kill mode just the entire every time you meet him, you're

724
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,680
like, are you OK? and he's not.

725
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,160
He was attempting to kill someone half the time.

726
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160
He was not OK.

727
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:12,120
OK, so the one that I found was Never Seduce a Scott by Maya Banks.

728
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,880
That sounds like what one did you say was the red one?

729
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,040
It was Never Love a Highlander.

730
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,680
OK, so the Never was this.

731
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,340
OK, I don't remember this book.

732
00:34:22,340 --> 00:34:23,760
Let me preface that.

733
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,200
My review is only five stars because Sword and Blood.

734
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,200
I don't I have to.

735
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,200
I don't know.

736
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,360
There was some aggressive kill in there.

737
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,240
I think she actually I think she did.

738
00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:34,240
But I don't know the context.

739
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:36,600
I don't know anything about that.

740
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,440
But just know that it got shit done.

741
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,440
Fair enough.

742
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,440
Yeah.

743
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,080
I mean, that's all I got for you.

744
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,400
But apparently I had a great time.

745
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,400
What do you need?

746
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,400
Really?

747
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,400
Nothing.

748
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,400
I mean, a sword and blood.

749
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,680
So, you know, sometimes you just got to do it.

750
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:54,680
You do.

751
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,680
Yeah, you do.

752
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:56,680
Mm hmm.

753
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:57,680
What else?

754
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:58,680
I feel like The Wraithkill of Wrath by Omelie Howard.

755
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,680
I'm just looking at some Omelie Howard one.

756
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:00,680
Yeah, I mean, I feel like a lot of her books.

757
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:01,680
Queen Bee.

758
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:02,680
That's aggressive kill mode the entire time.

759
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:03,680
And I loved it every minute.

760
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:04,680
The Beast of Besik also low key.

761
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:05,680
Oh my.

762
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:06,680
But she is like her own brand of aggressive kill mode.

763
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:25,880
Where it's not like over, at least she loses her mind.

764
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,360
She just walks in and is like, I am here to offer to marry you.

765
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:34,480
And then like, it kind of ruins his life.

766
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,040
Which Omelie is just a force to be reckoned with.

767
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,000
Omelie Howard is also an aggressive kill mode writer.

768
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Yeah.

769
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Yeah.

770
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,360
And a super hot, like sexy sex writer.

771
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,520
None of you were prepared for any Duke in a Storm.

772
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,480
I wasn't prepared for a Duke in question.

773
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:59,560
There was a line in that book that my jaw hit my chest.

774
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,800
I was like, oh.

775
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:07,360
It wasn't even like in the context of like erotica or like porn, it wouldn't be crazy.

776
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:14,600
But in the context of published, like traditionally published romance, I was like, oh my God.

777
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,760
So you have that to look forward to and praise Kate as she said, as she told us she was right.

778
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:20,760
She did.

779
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,400
She's like, here it's for you.

780
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,400
Merry Christmas.

781
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,400
We said thank you.

782
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,400
We said thank you.

783
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,400
Yeah.

784
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,400
Yeah.

785
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,160
I definitely told her that she writes really good sex.

786
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,760
I was like, your books are so hot.

787
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,240
And she's like, thank you.

788
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:37,400
I'm like, they're so like, I don't.

789
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,400
It's not talked about enough.

790
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:39,480
Like, they're so hot.

791
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,400
So you heard it here first.

792
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,200
The right kind of Roth.

793
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,640
The heroine like punches another woman.

794
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,480
I don't often condone that kind of violence.

795
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,680
But I do want to be honest, there's one scene in that book that blacked out every other

796
00:36:54,680 --> 00:37:03,560
scene in that book and it involved a blindfold and some ties and a chair.

797
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,320
You know, and that's the only thing I remember from it.

798
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaking of ties and a chair, I don't remember much of this, but the rebel in the rake.

799
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,800
I think you're more.

800
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:13,800
Yeah.

801
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,800
Yeah.

802
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,560
That was an aggressive kill mode edging.

803
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,800
Well, also that whole series deals with like spies.

804
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800
Yeah.

805
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,200
So there's already aggressive kill mode there.

806
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,680
That also was a lot of edging.

807
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,080
Now that you're tied to this chair, I might as well use this.

808
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,280
And he was like, please do.

809
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:41,560
And then there's the Bethany Bennett book to the yellow one where aggressive kill mode.

810
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,680
Yeah.

811
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,780
She just sucks his dick until he's on the brink.

812
00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:50,700
And then she just walks out.

813
00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:55,840
And he is so alarmed and turned on.

814
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,840
And so was I.

815
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:57,900
Hasted him.

816
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,240
She was so, I mean, rightfully so.

817
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:00,920
So mad at him.

818
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:01,920
Rightfully so.

819
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,140
It was, oh God, it was great.

820
00:38:05,140 --> 00:38:07,800
I think about that frequently.

821
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,640
Just like the jaw dropping moment of that one.

822
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:12,640
That really did it.

823
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,040
I think that kind of happened in Wicked and the Wampire.

824
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,040
Let me see.

825
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,040
Oh my God.

826
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,880
Oh my God, you know who else is in both sexual and just general lifestyle aggressive kill

827
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,200
mode at all times?

828
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,320
Lifestyle aggressive kill mode is how, that's how I aspire to be.

829
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,320
It's like a magazine.

830
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,320
Lifestyle aggressive kill mode.

831
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,520
Oh, September edition featuring Willa.

832
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,520
Yeah.

833
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:41,520
Oh God.

834
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,520
I can't remember their last name.

835
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,520
Ransom.

836
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,520
Oh yeah.

837
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,160
I forgot that his last name is Ransom.

838
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,160
That is also hot.

839
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,160
Oh wait.

840
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,160
His name is, well, Ethan Ransom.

841
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,160
That's from Lisa Klevis.

842
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,160
Oh no, no, no.

843
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,160
Ransom is the guy.

844
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,680
What is her name?

845
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,360
Because the Ransom brothers are the other ones.

846
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:01,360
Don Kilburn.

847
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:02,360
Kilburn, yeah.

848
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,360
Is him.

849
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,360
And Willa is a Ransom, right?

850
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,360
It's Ransom, yeah.

851
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,360
Because it's the Ransom brothers.

852
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,360
Okay.

853
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:13,160
Because Ransom is also the first name and I always get those confused.

854
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,880
Because Dom also had a sister, but she's the last one.

855
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,880
Yeah.

856
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,440
So there was a lot going on there.

857
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,320
Willa lives her life in aggressive kill mode.

858
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:28,040
So does Dom literally, but.

859
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:33,960
I saw my friend Maddie today and I told her, because she's read books one and two and she's

860
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,120
like going to read that one.

861
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,640
I'm like, dude, read it.

862
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,640
She listens to this.

863
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:44,040
So Maddie, this is me telling you again, read that book.

864
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,040
That is all.

865
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,040
There you have it.

866
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,040
There you have it.

867
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:52,200
And again, like the Wicked and the Wallflower scene, I don't know if it was like revenge

868
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,040
blowjob, but still one of the best oral scenes I've ever read.

869
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,640
So do with that what you will.

870
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,280
What else have we here?

871
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:09,120
We've got, I mean, you talked about this one when we talked about before, The Perfect Crimes

872
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,600
of Marianne Hayes.

873
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:11,600
Yeah.

874
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:16,680
We're entering the I'm just going to shoot someone category because I have a few.

875
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:17,680
Oh, yeah.

876
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:23,080
I mean, well, you have one, obviously, we know.

877
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,780
After this one.

878
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:33,060
So the first one in this great category that I love so much is she just really straight

879
00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:36,520
up murder someone at the beginning of that book.

880
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,080
And I respect it so hard.

881
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,240
You just have to enter aggressive kill mode is the vibe.

882
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:46,160
And she did deserve at least.

883
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,160
Yeah.

884
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,160
Yep.

885
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,160
The next one, Lord of Scoundrels.

886
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,160
OK, that's what I thought you were.

887
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,160
Yeah.

888
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,160
Yeah.

889
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:59,400
Well, I think that's not even the most aggressive kill mode moment in that book.

890
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,760
No, no, because the most she also tackling that man to the ground and repeatedly slamming

891
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,160
his head into a door.

892
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,960
She also did that.

893
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,120
Jessica Trent, the woman that you are.

894
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,120
Love of my life.

895
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,040
The woman that you are.

896
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,320
She's not addressing for revenge.

897
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:26,760
She's dressing for aggressive kill mode.

898
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,640
The funniest thing about her shooting him is that that wasn't even technically her going

899
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,200
into aggressive kill mode.

900
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,200
No.

901
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,760
She very specifically was aiming for his arm.

902
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:41,360
She knew exactly that was calculated kill mode in terms of like reputation.

903
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,560
I aggressively calculated kill mode.

904
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Yeah.

905
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,640
I just think aggressively badass kill.

906
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,360
Like I just.

907
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,360
I wasn't prepared.

908
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:58,720
I mean, that that's the whole statement I'm prepared to make.

909
00:41:58,720 --> 00:41:59,720
So true.

910
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:00,720
I was not prepared.

911
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:08,120
And then my one to round it out is a season of seduction by Jennifer Haymore.

912
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,080
It is a Christmas one.

913
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,960
So I read it last year, I think.

914
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:20,140
And listen, it wasn't a book that I was like vibing with because he was there was a lot

915
00:42:20,140 --> 00:42:21,560
of lying and stuff.

916
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,200
He was not a great guy for the first half.

917
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,640
But that was taken care of when she shot him.

918
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:32,920
So honestly, respect because he was like trying to marry her for her money.

919
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,880
I mean, he was doing it for, I guess, noble ish reasons.

920
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,760
But in her shoes, they were not noble.

921
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:44,960
And so she like he like had her ruins like he scheduled her brother to come in when he

922
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,080
was in the room with her.

923
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,760
And so when she found that out, she got a gun and literally shot him.

924
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:56,000
And he was like pretty close to dying.

925
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,520
And he has a bunch of legs.

926
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,720
Is that a quote?

927
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:02,720
Yes.

928
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:03,720
OK.

929
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:05,520
I don't know what it's from.

930
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,520
I only know it from Tik Tok.

931
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:08,520
Cool.

932
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,120
I was like, do you know?

933
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,120
It's like what?

934
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,520
It's the sound.

935
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,160
I need to buy a gun.

936
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,800
I mean, yes, I am scared of loud noises.

937
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,480
So this is my living by carelessly shelf.

938
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:27,000
But yeah, she just like shot him and was still angry at him for a lot of the book.

939
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,920
And he had to grovel and be like, honestly, you were right to shoot me.

940
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:37,000
So getting any man to admit that you were right to do that is just a really baller move.

941
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,920
So again, not the best book, but I did give it four stars.

942
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,560
One star was solely for that.

943
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,240
You know, like it turned out to be a pretty good book.

944
00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:50,200
Like once you got to the 50 percent mark.

945
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:55,520
So, yeah, I will probably read it again, because honestly, why not?

946
00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:01,120
Tis the season for aggressive kill mode.

947
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,600
Tis the season for aggressive kill mode.

948
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:09,320
I would argue that every India Holton heroine is into aggressive kill mode.

949
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:10,320
I didn't write any of them.

950
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,600
I just wrote India Holton.

951
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,040
I think her heroines more so.

952
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,720
I think Daniel Bixby is the one that comes the closest of the men.

953
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:19,720
Yeah.

954
00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:27,720
Because I think Alex and Ned are just so relaxed that it's hard for them to go full on aggressive

955
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:28,720
kill mode.

956
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:33,240
And then Charlotte, I'd say, would be the one who gets to feel all of our emotions at

957
00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:34,240
the end.

958
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:39,600
Like she gets to kind of let loose and just kind of fuck everything up for a little bit.

959
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,640
Because her whole thing is like controlling and like repressing and all of that.

960
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,520
Suppressing.

961
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:53,880
And yeah, Daniel, he's got a tiger within.

962
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,040
Boy does it roar aggressively.

963
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,040
So true.

964
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,680
I love him.

965
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,080
And I guess another guy with a tiger within him, Westcliff.

966
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,440
Also Daniel Bixby.

967
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:06,720
No, sorry.

968
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,560
Alice has to fight a literal tiger.

969
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,800
She has to escape a tiger.

970
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,800
Sorry.

971
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:13,800
Yes.

972
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:14,800
Who did you?

973
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,800
Oh, Westcliff.

974
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:16,800
Yeah.

975
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:22,320
Aggressive kill mode is the defining factor at the end of It Happened One Autumn.

976
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,680
And then once Lillian is pregnant, he also goes into aggressive find me the fucking doctor

977
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,700
mode or I will aggressively kill you mode.

978
00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:38,200
So God, that fight between him and Sebastian was just hilarious.

979
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,780
That single handedly made the book for me.

980
00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:42,780
It's giving movie.

981
00:45:42,780 --> 00:45:43,780
It's giving cinematography.

982
00:45:43,780 --> 00:45:57,040
I've got another sexual aggressive kill mode, and that is Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale.

983
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:03,120
He is so dark and dangerous and assassin Pyro mysterious and she is so sheltered.

984
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:08,680
And the minute they start banging, suddenly it gets real kinky.

985
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:13,480
And she is so dominant and he is so submissive.

986
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:19,920
And she at one point like ties him to the wall and is like edging him.

987
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,080
She like rakes her nails down his dick at one point.

988
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:25,400
There is just a lot happening.

989
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,240
This is also the one that is all from her or not from her.

990
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:31,720
It's still a third person.

991
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:38,680
But all of the chapters are from her POV because he's so silent and secretive and mysterious.

992
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:44,240
And then in that scene, like 17 chapters in, when she like ties him to the wall and is

993
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:50,400
being very dominant, it suddenly switches to his POV and I ate it up.

994
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:58,240
That reminds me of what was the Sophie Jordan one?

995
00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:00,400
The rake gets ravished.

996
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:08,240
The first like 60 pages are just from her POV because her brother has gambled away basically

997
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:09,800
all their money.

998
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,200
She's worried about him doing other things.

999
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:19,320
So she has to go and get back the deed to their house because he gambled that away as

1000
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:20,320
well.

1001
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:27,440
And I mean, she was lucky that he gambled it away to a super hot gambling den owner.

1002
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:38,160
Like if he's going to gamble it away to someone, he's got to be vrara and have washboard abs.

1003
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,640
I mean, that's just, you know, prerequisites.

1004
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:42,640
Exactly.

1005
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,640
And so she goes there in disguise.

1006
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:54,160
She really is just trying to get him alone, kind of kiss him up a little bit and distract

1007
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,160
him so she can steal the deed.

1008
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:02,160
Well, it gets to a point where she's got two paths to take.

1009
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,600
Robert Frost would be quaking.

1010
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:11,320
One is to exit out of his bedroom door and just go home and have no house.

1011
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:16,560
The other is to go home and have no house.

1012
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:26,500
The other is to lose her virginity by acting like an experienced woman on top.

1013
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,280
This man was not prepared.

1014
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,520
I wasn't prepared.

1015
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:35,160
She you know, it uses the I read about sex in books, so I'm very skilled.

1016
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,160
I don't care.

1017
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,160
It's a banger.

1018
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:38,520
It's a banger trope.

1019
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,560
Fight me.

1020
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:47,480
And so she just really says fuck it and just rides that dick like crazy.

1021
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:52,820
And he is so like because at first he's like, yeah, I'm not like you're not my type.

1022
00:48:52,820 --> 00:48:53,960
You can leave.

1023
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,280
And then she's like, well, that was rude.

1024
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,520
OK, I'll just go to a no house.

1025
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,640
And then she like turns around and has a whole little speech.

1026
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,520
And he's like, honestly, OK.

1027
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,960
And so, yeah, he doesn't know she's a virgin until like the next morning and she's gone.

1028
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:08,960
She left a note.

1029
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:09,960
She's like, sorry, I took it.

1030
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,360
And he's like, what the fuck?

1031
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,840
So she was a bad thief, but great ravisher.

1032
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:21,720
Honestly, what we all aspire to be, great ravisher.

1033
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:26,720
My Yelp review five stars.

1034
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:29,800
He was just so blown away because then he like saw the virgins, but he was like, what

1035
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:30,800
the fuck happened?

1036
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,640
Nobody feels so inclined to leave us a five star review, by the way.

1037
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:39,440
I would love for that to be the review that you leave.

1038
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,840
Bad thieves, but great ravisher.

1039
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:43,840
Honestly going on my LinkedIn.

1040
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,840
I got to put it out there.

1041
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:47,840
Yeah.

1042
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:53,040
So the rest of the book is them like having like a no sex pack basically.

1043
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,420
Yeah.

1044
00:49:54,420 --> 00:49:58,700
But the first so like the first like chunk of that book, you're not in his POV.

1045
00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:02,420
So you're just in hers, absolutely going to town on him.

1046
00:50:02,420 --> 00:50:04,240
And it's wild.

1047
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:10,880
Yeah, that I was just not prepared because it was so hot.

1048
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,640
It was so hot.

1049
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:14,640
No notes, really.

1050
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:15,640
Fair enough.

1051
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,720
That's a good cover, too.

1052
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:23,040
I have.

1053
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:27,520
Possibly my only non-historical romance contribution to this.

1054
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,680
I can't guarantee it because who knows what's to come.

1055
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,480
I don't know.

1056
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,480
Thoughts just vibes.

1057
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:41,560
However, Jude Duarte is perhaps.

1058
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,240
I know that's not a romance series.

1059
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:48,560
It's a YA fantasy series, but the romance is it imprinted on me enough that it lives

1060
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:50,360
in that section of my brain.

1061
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,360
Yeah.

1062
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,280
And I think I write it for the romance.

1063
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:54,840
So yeah, I mean, I did.

1064
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,640
I agree that it's.

1065
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,520
I never recommend it just for the.

1066
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:03,600
I have to be like it is political intrigue, but also that was a great romance.

1067
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:08,480
I do think it's a fantasy series that appeals to romance readers as long as they know that

1068
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,120
the romance is the B plot and not.

1069
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,760
The main plot anyway, Jude Duarte is the most.

1070
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,880
She also lives her life in aggressive kill mode in the truest sense of the term.

1071
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,560
Oh, she is so scary.

1072
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,280
I love her so much.

1073
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:26,280
So does garden.

1074
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,040
As he should.

1075
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,080
I was so confused in that first book.

1076
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,040
I was like, what is happening?

1077
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,040
Why am I into it?

1078
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,440
I was also and then because then you get the ropes, you know, as it goes along.

1079
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,440
Yeah.

1080
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:39,440
But wow.

1081
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,040
I mean, it starts off with like crazy murder.

1082
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,040
Yeah, like sure.

1083
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:45,040
It is.

1084
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,040
Yeah.

1085
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,200
I'm not going to that.

1086
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,200
That scene.

1087
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:51,200
Nothing but aggressive kill mode.

1088
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,600
She is in fact so aggressive kill mode, the hospitality of knives.

1089
00:51:55,600 --> 00:52:01,000
But in the follow up series, the the Stolen Heir, the second book isn't out yet, but in

1090
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,120
the Stolen Heir, you don't see Jude and Carden, but it's about Oak, who's like her little

1091
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:11,160
half brother or not half brother, but adopted brother basically.

1092
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,100
And another.

1093
00:52:13,100 --> 00:52:17,760
She also, let's be honest, is an aggressive kill mode, Surin.

1094
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,640
But not to the extent that Jude is.

1095
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:20,640
She's like feral.

1096
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,400
Jude is calculated and will like mess up your life.

1097
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:24,400
Yeah.

1098
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,000
She's like, oh, you're feral and has little knife teeth and will bite you.

1099
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:28,320
So there's that.

1100
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:35,080
Anyway, Jude is so aggressive kill mode that even though Carden is the king, like and he's

1101
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:39,600
the one that was part of the Greenbrier line and Jude is a human that married into it.

1102
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,920
Whenever other characters in this spinoff series talk about them, they'll be like, oh,

1103
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,640
oh, like your sister.

1104
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,560
Is she going to want to hear about what you're doing?

1105
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:50,560
Oh, the queen.

1106
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:51,560
Yeah.

1107
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:52,560
Carden's also there.

1108
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,240
You know who we're concerned with, though?

1109
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:55,840
The queen is Jude.

1110
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,840
That's what we're worried about.

1111
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:58,840
Yeah.

1112
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,360
Carden is just there for the vibes.

1113
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,360
He's like, I didn't even really want to be here.

1114
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:05,360
You can deal with my wife.

1115
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:11,120
Oh, she's so aggressive kill mode and I love her so much.

1116
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:16,240
God, I love that woman and that series.

1117
00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:17,240
Great.

1118
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:19,240
Great vibes.

1119
00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:25,720
Well, the one, I guess, other non contemporary.

1120
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:30,200
This one was coming up a lot at Steamy Lit.

1121
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:35,320
It was Sweet Vengeance by Viano Nanaimo.

1122
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:39,880
What a banger book.

1123
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,800
On the author's website, there's a list of trigger warnings, so definitely check that

1124
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,200
out because it's rife with them.

1125
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:50,920
But basically, all the book is that she summons a demon.

1126
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:57,840
He's a virgin, by the way, so that adds another level of aggressiveness from my perspective.

1127
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:07,200
So she summons a demon and she's basically like, I will sell my soul basically to murder

1128
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,920
this guy who abused me.

1129
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:16,800
And they spend the entire book having sex and when they're not having sex, stalking

1130
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,720
this guy and popping up randomly because he can make her invisible.

1131
00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:26,760
So she'll pop up in front of his car and then he'll make her invisible again.

1132
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,640
And then she's making this guy go insane.

1133
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,000
And then finally she just murders him.

1134
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:38,280
And it really was cathartic.

1135
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,160
That's the most aggressive Kill Mo book that I've read.

1136
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:48,840
Where it's just straight up so good and it's so hot.

1137
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,440
And I hope, oh yeah, it says right here, Sweet Demons number one.

1138
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,680
So there's going to be more.

1139
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:55,680
I'm prepared.

1140
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,800
I mean, I'm not, but I am.

1141
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,280
So that one, it was wrecked a lot by different authors at Steamy Lit.

1142
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:04,480
And I agree.

1143
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:05,480
It should be.

1144
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,520
And the cover is good.

1145
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,200
10 out of 10.

1146
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,960
Well, there you have it.

1147
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:14,960
I am scrolling.

1148
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,360
I haven't found any in a while.

1149
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:22,320
True aggressive Kill Mode.

1150
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:27,960
Yeah, I've got the Marquis Makes His Move.

1151
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,880
She had her little aggressive Kill Mode moment when she got to just hurl China in plates

1152
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,160
at her terrible husband.

1153
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,240
Just by diannequincy, if you don't know.

1154
00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:41,320
Yeah, it is a classic.

1155
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:49,080
And she just really has no room for being nice and forgiving and just goes a little

1156
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,480
feral.

1157
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:51,480
And I adored her for it.

1158
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,480
I mean, it really do be like that sometimes.

1159
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,520
Because I too, she went through a lot of shit.

1160
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,600
And I too would have gone feral.

1161
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,200
Can't argue with that.

1162
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:10,440
Another author who is just perpetually in aggressive Kill Mode is Lindsay Sands.

1163
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:16,200
I haven't read a lot, but her Highlander ones, the amount of concussions.

1164
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:21,400
She is in aggressive Kill Mode towards her characters, like her main characters.

1165
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,000
She does everything in her ability to get them at the brink of death.

1166
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,760
Fair enough.

1167
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:38,160
Honestly, she really loves pain and suffering and inflicting them on her poor characters.

1168
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,520
What is this one?

1169
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:42,520
I think this one's by her.

1170
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:43,520
An English bride.

1171
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:48,280
Yeah, an English bride in Scotland.

1172
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:54,960
The amount of concussions on concussions on concussions on arrow wounds on stab wounds.

1173
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,040
Like everything under the sun, like if there was a dinosaur, she'd write it in there and

1174
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:00,240
have it stomp on him.

1175
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:03,520
Like she just goes so hard.

1176
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:08,000
And at that point, you're just like, wow, how are like their heads?

1177
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,760
How are they not like squashed right now?

1178
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:11,760
Like jelly?

1179
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:12,760
I don't know.

1180
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:13,760
How are you alive?

1181
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:18,240
Asking that a lot, honestly, reading her books.

1182
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:25,280
The one more recent one that I read was in this Highland Bride series.

1183
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:31,040
And it starts with the hero having an arrow wound, a fresh arrow wound.

1184
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:36,600
And then it starts with a heroine narrowly escaping, like a rival clan, like abusing

1185
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,800
her and they like beat her up.

1186
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,240
And it was a whole thing.

1187
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,640
And I was like, whoa.

1188
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,240
And so then he like tackles her because he thinks she's a little boy because she like

1189
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:50,840
flees out her window and then she doesn't have any clothes on.

1190
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,800
And so then she steals his plaid when he's swimming and then he's like, hey, little boy,

1191
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:55,800
that's bad.

1192
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,480
So then he chases her and he tackles her and he's like, you're not a little boy.

1193
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,960
And then she's now got another head wound.

1194
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:08,880
And then so she and so then he's like, you're not a little boy.

1195
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,360
So then she pretends to have amnesia.

1196
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,000
My favorite trope.

1197
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,320
You're not a little boy because you're so tiny.

1198
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,640
And he's like, what?

1199
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,080
And so then he's like, well, I want to tackle you.

1200
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,560
But we're here now.

1201
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,640
And so then she pretends to have amnesia because she doesn't know if he is like affiliated

1202
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,120
with the clan that she just escaped.

1203
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:32,680
And so he's like the giant cinnamon roll once he's not like tackling her.

1204
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,360
Sure.

1205
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:39,360
But like he has like split his wounds like 10 million times in that book.

1206
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:43,900
She is like battered beyond recognition for a lot of it and a lot of head wounds because

1207
00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:45,280
of him on accident.

1208
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,600
There's just a lot happening.

1209
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,600
And so like every Lindsey Sam book is especially her Highlander ones.

1210
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:57,800
I don't know about her other ones, but prepare to want to go get someone a bandaid.

1211
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:02,000
Not that's going to do much, but I made it with my tears.

1212
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:03,480
Here you go.

1213
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:04,480
That.

1214
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:10,240
Yeah, she's she's in aggressive kill mode in that Highlander Highland Bride series.

1215
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,720
So wow.

1216
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,320
I've officially run out of books.

1217
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,040
I cannot think of any more.

1218
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:24,520
I will leave one final aggressive kill mode author, not because the characters in her

1219
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,880
books are really in my experience.

1220
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,760
I mean, I've only read a few of her books so far.

1221
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,320
The characters don't really do a ton of aggressive kill mode.

1222
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:38,880
But she is in aggressive kill mode on my emotional state at all times.

1223
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:39,880
And that is Sherry Thomas.

1224
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:45,320
Sherry Thomas in almost every book of hers that I've read, there's one that I DNF because

1225
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:49,440
I'm going to go back and try it again at some point, but it did not work for me when I tried

1226
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:50,440
it.

1227
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:55,000
But every other Sherry Thomas I have ever read just is like an assault on my emotional

1228
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,400
well-being for three to four hundred pages.

1229
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:03,920
It's kind of like what if I just made these characters go through so much emotional turmoil

1230
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,880
and just hurt you in every way that I could.

1231
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:08,880
And it is fantastic.

1232
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:13,880
But also I'm in pain.

1233
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,360
But I thank God for it.

1234
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,920
Yeah, I think we talked about private arrangements when we...

1235
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,760
I was just in constant pain.

1236
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,640
Ravishing the heiress.

1237
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:28,600
Nothing has ever hurt me for that sustained amount of time the way that that book did.

1238
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,640
She was like, oh, you thought pining was like a cute...

1239
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,240
I'm going to make it hurt so bad.

1240
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:40,880
You are going to be in agony for this poor woman.

1241
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:41,880
Plot twist.

1242
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,160
John Cougar Mellon Camp wrote, it hurt so good about Sherry Thomas.

1243
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:46,680
I wouldn't doubt it, frankly.

1244
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:47,680
Don't.

1245
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:48,680
It's actually a fact.

1246
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:49,680
Wikipedia.

1247
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:50,680
You heard it here first.

1248
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:51,680
I'm just saying.

1249
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:52,680
Yeah.

1250
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:53,680
Yeah, I don't...

1251
01:00:53,680 --> 01:01:03,440
Honestly, I feel like this one Kate Bateman book.

1252
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:07,280
I feel like Kate Bateman is on the cusp of entering her aggressive Killmudd era.

1253
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,400
Fair enough.

1254
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,960
She's just got some kooky fun plots.

1255
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,720
But this one, The Princess and the Rogue.

1256
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:15,400
I want to read that.

1257
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:16,400
Yeah.

1258
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:17,400
All of her books are great.

1259
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:22,080
I have not enjoyed any of them.

1260
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,560
But this one.

1261
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,680
So from the title, she is a princess.

1262
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:27,680
He is a rogue.

1263
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:28,680
What?

1264
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:29,680
I don't know.

1265
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:30,680
Boiler alert.

1266
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:31,680
I know.

1267
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:36,880
I am terrible.

1268
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:41,240
And again, I love when the one character doesn't know that the other character is a virgin.

1269
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,960
And then it's some dramatic reveal and you're like, they're like, whoa, my God, I cannot

1270
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:45,960
believe it.

1271
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,320
Boy, are you going to love Gentle Rogue?

1272
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:48,320
I'm just kidding.

1273
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,320
It's not a dramatic reveal, but it's kind of a humorous one.

1274
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,480
Well, any kind of reveal is great.

1275
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,160
I read one.

1276
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,960
I just read it, but I'm forgetting it.

1277
01:01:58,960 --> 01:01:59,960
Who knows?

1278
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:01,280
Not me.

1279
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:07,400
But the quote from this one, this is the hero, whatever his name was, saying, speaking right

1280
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:08,400
now.

1281
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,200
He said, Christ alive.

1282
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,320
I don't bed virgins ever.

1283
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:16,280
I bed wenches, actresses, widows, tarts.

1284
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:20,120
And then her eyes widened at that, but she lifted her chin in that haughty way he should

1285
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,960
have realized came from a lifetime of privilege.

1286
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:23,960
This is from her.

1287
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,840
Well, now you fucked a woman who outranks you.

1288
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,420
Congratulations.

1289
01:02:28,420 --> 01:02:30,840
And then she just leaves.

1290
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:39,000
And it has stuck upon me like a little sea urchin or like some weird thing on like a

1291
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:40,000
whale.

1292
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:44,600
I'm a piece of algae on a whale or on the whale.

1293
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:45,600
That's the algae.

1294
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:46,600
Who knows?

1295
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,360
I don't know.

1296
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:55,600
It comes with me through the good days, the bad days, the days I just want to sleep, the

1297
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,400
days where I'm running errands.

1298
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:03,560
I just think about her and he was so shocked and it was great.

1299
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,360
I mean, I would be frankly.

1300
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:10,280
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

1301
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:12,080
Yeah.

1302
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,040
And I think that that really rounds it out.

1303
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,320
I agree.

1304
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:22,320
So if you listener know of any books that have aggressive kill mode moments.

1305
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:24,320
Oh, wait, no, I lied.

1306
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:25,320
Oh my God.

1307
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:26,320
Fucking Sky O'Malley.

1308
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,720
That book is aggressive kill mode all the way through.

1309
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,880
Yeah, I was aggressively killed.

1310
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:31,880
Yeah.

1311
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,000
No, but that one that one's definitely aggressive kill mode.

1312
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:40,720
I feel like they all kind of want to kill each other at multiple moments aggressively.

1313
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:41,760
I lied.

1314
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:47,160
The Bachelor Bargain by Madison Michaels is my last one.

1315
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,560
The hero.

1316
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,000
He may actually be a villain.

1317
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:59,000
Like, you know, he's done a lot of things and he goes into detail about the things that

1318
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:00,000
he's done.

1319
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:05,040
And frankly, it's alarming, but also it turns you on.

1320
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:12,000
And so like, you know, there's not much more to say.

1321
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,640
That man, he's done some shit.

1322
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:20,040
I mean, so it was charming Mickey.

1323
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:21,560
I'm looking at you.

1324
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:22,560
Charming Mickey.

1325
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,200
Charming the pants right off of me.

1326
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:32,640
But no, the Madison Michaels one, I don't quite know what she was unleashing in that

1327
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:40,320
book, but that hero was like the baddest kingpin.

1328
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:45,480
I don't even like some of these like historical romance heroes are like their rakes.

1329
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,920
They just kind of give like off like a fake.

1330
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:58,880
But he probably would have worn someone's skin as a suit if he needed to.

1331
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,800
Like if he needed to really make someone suffer, he would have went for it.

1332
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:07,640
The things he did to one man in particular.

1333
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:15,520
And then he like the way that he had that man like then like indebted to it, you know,

1334
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,480
read that book, find out for yourself.

1335
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,240
It was crazy.

1336
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:21,720
Yeah.

1337
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:23,280
Yeah.

1338
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,680
I. I've never really read.

1339
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:30,800
I mean, I guess in some of these bias rippers, but like most heroes, they're like secret

1340
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:37,000
trauma or like their secret bad thing is that they like got into a bar fight or almost did

1341
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:42,600
something bad or like lost money or gambling or something.

1342
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:46,080
This man, active crimes.

1343
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:49,360
But like I endorse them.

1344
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,360
So fair enough.

1345
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:52,840
Yeah.

1346
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:54,320
Yeah.

1347
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:55,880
That.

1348
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,720
That's me.

1349
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:01,040
I have nothing more to add.

1350
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,520
No.

1351
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,320
I mean, there you have it.

1352
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:09,840
Your aggressive kill mode, extensive starter pack, not even just a starter pack.

1353
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:14,440
We've given you more than enough.

1354
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,440
Your finishing pack.

1355
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:18,640
Smile.

1356
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:20,680
A pack a day.

1357
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,280
That would be an impressive pack a day.

1358
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,840
That would be a lot of books in a day.

1359
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:25,840
Yeah.

1360
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:32,320
And a lot of like a highly like adrenaline fueling like moments.

1361
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:34,280
So yeah.

1362
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,880
Go forth and read about people in aggressive kill mode.

1363
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:38,880
Mm hmm.

1364
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:39,880
Mm hmm.

1365
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:45,080
Maybe you're going out into your own life.

1366
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:47,440
No, no.

1367
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,160
You do whatever you want.

1368
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:50,160
Live.

1369
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:51,160
Yeah, do that.

1370
01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:52,160
Yep.

1371
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:53,160
That's all I got.

1372
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:54,160
Yeah, nothing else.

1373
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:55,160
To recap, we've got the secret holiday that you should know.

1374
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:56,160
Talk the pirate day.

1375
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,160
It's not a secret if you tell them.

1376
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:58,160
I know.

1377
01:06:58,160 --> 01:06:59,160
I know.

1378
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:00,160
I know.

1379
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:01,160
I know.

1380
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:02,160
I know.

1381
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:03,160
I know.

1382
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:04,160
I know.

1383
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:05,160
I know.

1384
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:06,160
I know.

1385
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,160
I know.

1386
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,160
I know.

1387
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,160
I know.

1388
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:10,160
I know.

1389
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:11,160
I know.

1390
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,160
Just kidding.

1391
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:13,160
It is in fact international talk like a pirate day.

1392
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:14,160
September 19th every year.

1393
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:15,160
It's a great day.

1394
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:16,160
Every year.

1395
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:19,160
The way you said that was so Schmidt coded.

1396
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:20,160
You.

1397
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:27,680
I can't tell if Schmidt would love talk like a pirate day.

1398
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:28,680
Actually no.

1399
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:29,680
No.

1400
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:30,680
Jessica May would love talk like a pirate day.

1401
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:31,680
Schmidt would fucking hate it.

1402
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:35,800
He would hate it so much.

1403
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,760
He would however do some weird pirate role play.

1404
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:40,760
Yeah he would.

1405
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:41,760
Yeah he would.

1406
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:42,760
He would take advantage of that.

1407
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:47,640
At any rate, it's talk like a pirate day coming up on Tuesday which means boy will we be coming

1408
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:51,280
at you with some pirate romance discussions.

1409
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:55,560
I also have a book where the guy has an eye patch and I don't even know if he's a pirate.

1410
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:57,440
I kind of want to read it.

1411
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,360
I mean that's like as much of a pirate as you can be.

1412
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:04,280
Is it one eyed dukes are?

1413
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,320
No but that's another one.

1414
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:07,560
Thank you for adding that to my list.

1415
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,000
That's Megan Frampton.

1416
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,800
This one is an older.

1417
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:13,760
I can't remember the rest of the title.

1418
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,680
One eyed dukes are wild or something.

1419
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:17,680
Yeah.

1420
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:18,680
There's.

1421
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:21,800
Which is an insane title by the way.

1422
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:26,960
That is an insane thing to name a book.

1423
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,980
One eyed dukes are wild.

1424
01:08:29,980 --> 01:08:32,200
And that man is on the cover with an eye patch.

1425
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:36,280
Who allowed that title?

1426
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:37,280
My hero.

1427
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:38,280
Fair enough.

1428
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:43,600
There's a Minerva Spencer I think that also has a guy with an eye patch.

1429
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:44,920
But there's this one.

1430
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:49,800
They're on like a body of water and it's a really cool cover and he has an eye patch.

1431
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:54,360
I saw it when I was like reorganizing my shelves so I find it.

1432
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:55,840
But yeah I'll be reading Gentle Rogue.

1433
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:59,080
I mean pirate and pirate adjacent romances.

1434
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:00,440
I kind of read one today.

1435
01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:02,440
He was like pirate adjacent.

1436
01:09:02,440 --> 01:09:06,160
I love a pirate adjacent romance.

1437
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:07,160
Gentle Rogue.

1438
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:08,680
I thought it was a pirate romance.

1439
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:12,400
Really it's pirate, well retired pirate, pirate adjacent.

1440
01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:15,120
He doesn't do any pirating.

1441
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,640
But they are on a boat for part of it.

1442
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,240
And he was imprisoned for former pirating.

1443
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,760
Well he was locked in their cellar.

1444
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,040
I wouldn't go so far as to say imprisoned.

1445
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:29,040
Imprisoned in their cellar.

1446
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,040
Imprisoned in the wardrobe.

1447
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:35,080
Set fire to the wardrobe.

1448
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,640
Yeah so that's happening on the 19th.

1449
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:45,800
And then the rake by Mary, I know, the rake by Mary Jo Putney is on that Friday, whatever

1450
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:47,920
day that is.

1451
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:51,280
So lots of things coming at you.

1452
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:56,920
Yeah lots of things coming at you indeed.

1453
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:01,680
So nothing else really.

1454
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:06,320
Read some pirate romance so you can feel like you're part of that ride.

1455
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:07,440
Or read the rake.

1456
01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:08,440
I have no clue.

1457
01:10:08,440 --> 01:10:10,880
I've never, I don't really hear people talk about that one.

1458
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:11,880
I don't know anything about it.

1459
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:19,560
It's a little bit later in the 90s so I'm a little cautious, a little optimistic.

1460
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:25,880
I just can't be, like I need to be a little bit cautious or else I'll get hurt again.

1461
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:29,840
So you get some armor.

1462
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:35,920
Yeah I hope you enjoyed that.

1463
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:37,800
That's our aggressive kill mode.

1464
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:41,480
Yeah get your eye patches and peg legs ready.

1465
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:45,040
Strap in for some true aggressive kill mode.

1466
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,000
Pirate romance is coming at you.

1467
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:48,600
In just a few days by the time this goes out.

1468
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,320
It really is just a few days.

1469
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:53,320
Too few of days if I'm being honest.

1470
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,840
I feel like I want to read a lot and that's not that many days.

1471
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,960
So just do your best.

1472
01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:02,640
Guys there's a, I don't think I'll have it read in time because I have a bunch of other

1473
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,800
ones that have audiobooks and I'm going to prioritize those and this one doesn't have

1474
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:10,120
it but I did find a Teresa Madero's pirate romance.

1475
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:15,520
Where it's one of the, because it's older and so it's like got kind of a vague description

1476
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,600
and I didn't look any further into it.

1477
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:22,920
But it basically was, it seems like she was kidnapped by a pirate and he didn't do anything

1478
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:30,000
to her and then let go and then at some point she, I don't remember if he's like a bodyguard

1479
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,440
or something but she comes back and she's like attracted to him.

1480
01:11:32,440 --> 01:11:33,440
She doesn't know what's going on.

1481
01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:36,680
Whatever the pirate's name is apparently Captain Doom.

1482
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:42,960
Her books really don't have audiobooks which is a shame.

1483
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:44,760
Captain Doom.

1484
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:49,080
I'm going to see if I can find it because I can't remember what the name of it was.

1485
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,680
It's one of those ones that has like kind of a beachy look and cover but it's not a

1486
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:55,720
whisper of roses.

1487
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,480
It's thief of hearts.

1488
01:11:57,480 --> 01:12:00,320
Oh this one has way more of a description.

1489
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:01,320
Hang on.

1490
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:02,320
Is it?

1491
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:06,040
Yeah from the storm-lashed decks of a pirate schooner to the elegant grounds of an English

1492
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:10,920
estate comes a spellbinding tale of love and deception.

1493
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:12,480
As the only remark, nope.

1494
01:12:12,480 --> 01:12:14,400
Okay there we go.

1495
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:18,600
An innocent beauty prim and pampered loose into snow knew little of men and nothing of

1496
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:23,600
danger until the fog shrouded night she found herself abducted and at the mercy of the legendary

1497
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:25,920
Captain Doom.

1498
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:31,680
Ruthless and mocking, tender and virile, the notorious pirate awakened all Lucy's passionate

1499
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,800
longings then abandoned her with nothing but a kiss.

1500
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:39,760
Now safely at home the alluring waif is tormented by treacherous memories and by the presence

1501
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:44,740
of Gerard Claremont, her mysterious new bodyguard.

1502
01:12:44,740 --> 01:12:49,160
Nothing about him from his forbidding size to his impertinent manner sparks her defiance

1503
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:56,040
and even when Gerard's smile turns seductive no one can make her forget Doom.

1504
01:12:56,040 --> 01:13:00,520
Yet only when Lucy's path crosses the Captain's once more will she learn who is on a voyage

1505
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:06,680
of retribution and who is out to steal her heart.

1506
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,880
Bro.

1507
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:16,820
That plays into one of my favorite tropes which is a subset of the mistaken or hidden

1508
01:13:16,820 --> 01:13:21,480
identity trope which is...

1509
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:27,720
The person, so one is disguising their identity and the other person that doesn't know doesn't

1510
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:33,680
think that they can be together because of the status or like the fake identity.

1511
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:38,600
But little do they know that we know that this person is actually the perfect person

1512
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:42,160
for them, like they're perfectly suited because it's a fake identity and the real identity

1513
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:43,600
is perfect.

1514
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:44,760
And so like that's my favorite.

1515
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:46,080
I put it in a review.

1516
01:13:46,080 --> 01:13:52,880
It's my dramatic irony because like nothing is better than two characters.

1517
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,640
This happened in the Kathy Maxwell that I just read.

1518
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,240
Nothing is better than them thinking that they cannot be together because they were

1519
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:00,540
both hiding their identities.

1520
01:14:00,540 --> 01:14:06,520
So like they were so upset and gutted and then it's kind of just like, oh, and then

1521
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:07,520
other things happen.

1522
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:11,720
Like I love that so much happens in Love Letters from a Duke by Elizabeth Boyle.

1523
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:16,200
She wants a Duke so badly and then her footman is really hot and she's like, really?

1524
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:17,200
How do I...

1525
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:21,000
Like how have I failed myself being attracted to him when I need a Duke?

1526
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:22,320
He's actually a Duke, guys.

1527
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:23,320
Don't worry.

1528
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:26,280
So it's so good.

1529
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:32,840
So Thief of Hearts, that compels me.

1530
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:35,120
I mean...

1531
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:38,800
Right from the get go, Captain Doom really got me.

1532
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:43,120
I don't know if I'll have time to read that one because again, I have several others,

1533
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:44,120
but...

1534
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:45,560
Honestly, I may do that.

1535
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:46,560
I think I kind of...

1536
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:47,560
Go forth.

1537
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,240
I'm missing my library has it because honestly, Theresa Madero's slaps...

1538
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,400
I have it on Libby so it may be on...

1539
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:56,780
I don't know which library card, but it's worth checking.

1540
01:14:56,780 --> 01:15:01,760
She wrote the After Midnight and The Vampire Who Loved Me and she also wrote A Kiss to

1541
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:02,760
Remember.

1542
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:09,480
And then Dani from Overflowing Shelves, she wrote a Western that's pre-2000 so we need

1543
01:15:09,480 --> 01:15:15,200
to read that for next season because she said it was a really great historical Western,

1544
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:16,560
which scare me a little bit.

1545
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:21,200
So if I've gotten endorsement, I am way more willing.

1546
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:23,240
Let me see what it was called.

1547
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:26,280
She just did a step back review for it.

1548
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:29,840
Nobody's Darling by Theresa Madero.

1549
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:31,920
I want to read that really bad.

1550
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:40,440
So stay tuned if we end up experiencing Captain Doom.

1551
01:15:40,440 --> 01:15:48,920
That Mocking, Tender, and Virile.

1552
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:51,680
Alluring Wave.

1553
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:57,000
That's going in my bio if I had room.

1554
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:03,760
Alluring Wave, tormented by treacherous men.

1555
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:09,560
The more campy a book description sounds, like a historical romance description sounds,

1556
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:13,400
the more I'm like, yeah, honestly sign me up.

1557
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:14,480
That's why I started reading.

1558
01:16:14,480 --> 01:16:18,480
That's why I got a bunch of them from the thrift store before I even read them because

1559
01:16:18,480 --> 01:16:22,240
I was reading the summaries and I was like, these sound like a really good time.

1560
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:23,240
And they are.

1561
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:24,240
And they are.

1562
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:30,760
What was it?

1563
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:34,240
Nothing hits like Mocking, Tender, and Virile.

1564
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:35,240
What a combination.

1565
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:41,040
Mocking, Tender, and Virile men and their alluring waves.

1566
01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:43,480
Captain Doom.

1567
01:16:43,480 --> 01:16:45,280
Captain Doom.

1568
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:46,600
Wow.

1569
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:48,000
Wow.

1570
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:49,520
Okay.

1571
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,200
Yes.

1572
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:56,080
You guys underestimate, I feel like, my love.

1573
01:16:56,080 --> 01:17:03,680
No one's ever told me to my face, but I feel like you guys underestimate my sheer love

1574
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,680
of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

1575
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,280
I feel like that's probably accurate.

1576
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,840
I feel like I did.

1577
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:12,840
It's just so fun.

1578
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:14,840
You know what?

1579
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,040
We'll talk about it in the next.

1580
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:21,320
I was gonna say, because there's a, you can get free things on Talk Like a Pirate.

1581
01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:23,640
Yeah, they used to do more.

1582
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:25,880
It's fewer and fewer places have been doing it.

1583
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,640
So now it's only like, I don't know, like Long John Silver's and something.

1584
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,240
The War Against Talk Like a Pirate Day.

1585
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,480
The War Against Talk Like a Pirate Day.

1586
01:17:33,480 --> 01:17:34,480
What is going on?

1587
01:17:34,480 --> 01:17:35,480
Get your swords.

1588
01:17:35,480 --> 01:17:40,000
Krispy Kreme used to go and give out like a dozen donuts if you showed up dressed as

1589
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:41,080
a pirate.

1590
01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:45,600
What if you just do and scare them into giving you donuts?

1591
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:49,360
So I was talking to Estelle today and we were talking, cause she was like, oh, Talk Like

1592
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,880
a Pirate Day is coming up because I mentioned Gentle Rogue and I was like, thank you for

1593
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:53,880
remembering.

1594
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:55,760
Yes, it is.

1595
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:59,640
And we were talking about like Forever Only has a few pirate books and she wishes they

1596
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:00,640
had more.

1597
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,240
And she talked about working for, I don't remember who, but a different publisher and

1598
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:06,240
they had a book.

1599
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:07,240
I can't remember.

1600
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:12,400
I think maybe it was like a children's book or something called The Pizza Pirate.

1601
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:18,640
And we ended up like spitballing back and forth and accidentally I came up with a genius

1602
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:21,120
idea for a romance.

1603
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:26,840
And it's a time travel romance where she works at a pizza place called Pizza Pirate and ends

1604
01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:30,280
up somehow getting like Outlander style sucked back in time.

1605
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,680
But because of her uniform, they think she's a pirate.

1606
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:35,680
And then romance ensues.

1607
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:36,680
That's it.

1608
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:37,680
That's as far as I got.

1609
01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:43,040
The way that I would read The Pizza Pirate so quick, like guys, this is going to be my

1610
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:50,840
debut romance novel because he's got pepperoni and an eye patch and a big dick.

1611
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:51,840
He's got the sausage.

1612
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:57,480
Can he be Italian so it can be Italian sausage?

1613
01:18:57,480 --> 01:18:59,800
Mamma mia.

1614
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:00,800
He says that.

1615
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:01,800
Never mind.

1616
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:07,960
Oh, God.

1617
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:14,840
Well, Italian sausage.

1618
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:19,320
If you listen to our pirate episode, we'll count each listen as a vote for Caroline to

1619
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,320
write that book.

1620
01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:27,520
I cannot wait.

1621
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,360
Look out for my debut romance, The Pizza Pirate.

1622
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:35,320
That's so much fun.

1623
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,320
Meat Lover Special.

1624
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:38,320
Wow.

1625
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:42,120
It's so suited.

1626
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:43,600
It just writes itself basically.

1627
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,600
It really does.

1628
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:49,200
Oh, OK.

1629
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,960
We are over time.

1630
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:58,040
Not that we've ever had a time limit that we've actually used ever.

1631
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,400
Not as time when there are pirates and pizza.

1632
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:02,720
We really treated them with that little preview.

1633
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:03,720
Yeah.

1634
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,400
Pirate for Tuesday's episode.

1635
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:06,400
We really did.

1636
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:07,400
You're welcome.

1637
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:08,400
You're so welcome.

1638
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:15,280
Also, you are welcome for my creative genius.

1639
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:20,200
I'm in awe sitting here.

1640
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:24,320
Up to my titties and alligators.

1641
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:25,320
That's a mic drop.

1642
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:26,320
Boom.

1643
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:28,320
Boom.